1. The Dancing Baby (Original 3D animation)
The creepy yet iconic 3D baby that danced across millions of screens in the early internet era. Try finding the original file—not a YouTube reupload—and you’ll hit a dead end.
2. “You Are a Pirate!” Remix
A ridiculously catchy remix from the LazyTown show that exploded in early YouTube culture—many original uploads were struck down by copyright bots.
3. Star Wars Kid (Unedited)
While you can find remixes, the original uncut video of Ghyslain swinging a golf ball retriever like a lightsaber? Long gone.
4. That Guy Who Turned Into a Pickle (Before Rick Did It)
A forgotten Vine of a guy saying “I’m a pickle now!” years before Rick and Morty—vanished after Vine shut down.
5. Hamster Dance Original Page
Sure, the song’s everywhere—but the original GeoCities page with dancing hamsters on rainbow backgrounds? Ghosted by the web cleanup squad.
6. The Numa Numa Guy’s First Upload
Gary Brolsma’s lip-sync masterpiece is a meme legend—but the original upload? Lost when the hosting site nuked their archives.
7. RealPlayer “Funny” Videos Archive
Entire “humor” sections of early 2000s internet video hubs like RealPlayer are gone without a trace.
8. Neopets Drama Forums
Where else could you witness petty arguments over virtual omelets and digital pets? These forums were wiped clean long ago.
9. Salad Fingers Website (Flash Version)
David Firth’s creepy cartoon lives on, but the original Flash-based site? Adobe’s purge ended that era.
10. Albino Blacksheep’s Deep Archive
Still online—but good luck finding the truly weird stuff that once hid in its deepest corners.
11. Weebl’s Stuff Uncut Animations
Many of the more obscure, NSFW, or just plain weird animations got quietly removed.
12. JibJab’s “This Land” Political Parody
Once everywhere in the Bush vs. Kerry election era—now scrubbed for music licensing reasons.
13. eBaum’s World Soundboards
Gone are the days of pranking friends with an Arnold Schwarzenegger soundboard at 2 AM.
14. Flash Games Like “Peasant’s Quest”
Homestar Runner’s game masterpieces are hard to run since Flash died—unless you’re deep into emulation.
15. YTMND Deep Cuts
Yes, the site came back—but many of the original meme loops are broken, corrupted, or deleted.
16. That One Guy’s “Sims 2” Soap Opera
A 10-episode drama made entirely in The Sims 2—if you know, you know. Now? Good luck finding it.
17. Tumblr Erotica That Was Actually Art
Before the great purge, Tumblr hosted countless odd and artistic NSFW posts. Now, many are simply gone.
18. Cringe Compilation Vines
Vine was a goldmine for short, bizarre, and deeply awkward videos. Many compilation accounts were deleted with the platform.
19. The “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” Original
Everyone’s heard the song—but where’s the first Flash loop that started it all?
20. Conspiracy Forums from 2005
From alien-hybrid humans to time-traveling dolphins—these fringe sites were hilarious and terrifying… and mostly scrubbed.
21. YouTube Poops from 2007
The golden age of nonsense video editing. Many were deleted after copyright strikes or uploader regret.
22. “Badger Badger Mushroom” in its Full Loop
The original infinite loop version from Weebl’s Stuff has been tweaked, altered, or removed across platforms.
23. LiveJournal Drama
The early 2000s blog beefs, complete with emo poetry and pixel art icons—largely lost or locked behind defunct accounts.
24. “Trololo” Guy’s Live Performance
Eduard Khil’s full Soviet TV performance was up, then down, then up again—but in lower quality or only clips.
25. Bebo and Friendster Profiles
Once home to millions of deeply personal, deeply embarrassing teen photos and statuses. Now, dust.
26. Viral “Chatroulette” Screamer Reactions
People’s reactions to jump scares on Chatroulette were internet gold… until those videos quietly vanished.
27. Zombo.com (Original Interface)
You can still go to Zombo.com, but the Flash-based weirdness is gone. You can no longer do anything at Zombo.com.
28. Niconico Weird Anime Remixes
If you don’t speak Japanese, you’ll never find those specific, deranged anime mashups again.
29. Dancing Jesus GIF from Angelfire
A pixelated Jesus doing disco moves to MIDI music—gone with the Angelfire cleanup.
30. MySpace Band Profiles
An entire generation of garage bands and emo music lived here. When MySpace lost user data in 2019, so did a cultural archive.
